Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Vegameatavitamin
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Thu Sep 14 09:13:45 2006
References: <200609140018.k8E0IHtZ048134@server1.waverley.reid.org> <605098B5-5572-4EA7-9493-707368C9EDBB@optonline.net> <20060914155546.GA23645@jbm.org>

I'd never heard of it though I love Lucy was shown in England when I  
was young. It did not amuse me, Monty Python was more my type of  
humour :-)
Frank

ps are you using the word "world" to mean "USA"?

On 14 Sep, 2006, at 16:55, Jeff Moore wrote:

> 2006-09-14-11:27:48 Lawrence Zeitlin:
>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Hoppy wrote:
>>
>>> Who is this Lucy and what is a VEGAMEATAVITAMIN?
>>> Not Xena we're talking about, is it?
> [...]
>> I have been clearly misinformed. I throught that the sun never set on
>> reruns of "I Love Lucy."
>
> It's impossible that anyone in the world (except perhaps for a few
> semi-feral home-schooled children whose parents were convinced that
> television is a "bad influence", and who therefore grew up poorly
> socialized, doomed to a life drifting without any roots in shared
> popular culture) could be unfamiliar with every hour of "I Love Lucy."
> (I reject notions of oceans and nations and continents as  
> sufficient to
> stop the inevitable sharing of so important and powerful a cultural
> artifact.)  Thus, the only possible conclusion is that Hoppy is
> detail-oriented and was practising tough love with you, pretending
> obtuseness because you scrambled the syllables of  
> "Vitameatavegamin" --
> which you, in turn, were clearly doing as an exercise in literary
> license because you wished to create a stronger parallel with  
> Vegemite.
>
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Replies: Reply from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] Re: Vegameatavitamin)
Reply from nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts) ([Leica] Re: Vegameatavitamin)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Vegameatavitamin)
Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] Re: Vegameatavitamin)